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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Whistling post stroke

Until tonight I couldn't do this after the stroke. Had the The Legendary Italian Westerns (The Film Composers Series, Volume II) by Ennio Morricone Audio CD with 31 tracks on it. Lots of whistling in those western compositions. So tonight I could finally whistle along with the tunes. I've listed to this multiple times  in the car in the past 12 years. There is no damage to the vocal cords or speech  areas in the brain that I could tell. So I don't know why I couldn't whistle before this. With 10 million survivors per year someone there in the past 10 years has had the same problem and overcome it. A decent researcher could explain how this rehab could be repeated for others.
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  1. DeniseFebruary 5, 2019 at 6:47 PM

    I know why I can't whistle after my stroke (although I'm getting pretty close). I lost control of one side of my face from the stroke (6+ years ago). It is slowly coming back. I wonder if my physical therapist knows any exercises for that.

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  2. DeniseFebruary 6, 2019 at 4:27 PM

    As it turns out, she does. She had me make the sounds "eeeeeee" until I ran out of air, then "ooooooooo" (long o as in Ohio) until I ran out of air, and recommended doing them 10 times each, 4 times a day. She was surprised I hadn't had more speech therapy, especially since I had moderate aphasia, which has gotten much better without treatment since I got out of the rehab hospital at 3 months post-stroke.

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